Wringer.



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(Application filed Nov. 27, 1899.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES A TTOHNE h UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

CHARLES PHILANDER SEARLES, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL L. BLACK, OF SAME PLACE.

WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,052, dated August 14, 1900.

y Application filed November 27,1899. Serial No. 738.369. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES PHILANDER SEARLES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wringers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my present invention is to provide an improved wringer in which the clamping of the wringer to the tub and the bringing together of the rolls are efiected by a single operation, a single spring being employed to secure the pressure between the roll and the clamping force.

My invention consists in the features of novelty hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, having an embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is an end View in elevation, showing the wringer on the edge of a tub, but not clamped thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view, parts being broken out and shown in section to illustrate details, but showing the wringer clamped to the edge of the tub. Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation; and Fig. 4 is a'horizontal sectional view at one end of the upper roller, taken on line a: 00 of Fig. 2.

Like characters of reference in the several views designate corresponding parts.

In the drawings the main frame is composed of hollow end pieces 7, connected at their upper ends by a tie-bar 2 and at the depending legs 7 by an apron 8, that may be hinged to fold up, if desired. The tie-bar 2 contains an adjustable screw 2% The rollers 4 and 4 have their shafts extending through end casings 1, the aperture for the shaft of the lower roller 4 beingelongated, as shown in dotted line. The ends of the shafts of the rollers are provided withgears 9, that mesh when the wringer is clamped to the tub. A movable leg 6 is placed loosely on each end of the shaft of the lower roller, and these legs have horizontally and outwardly extending arms 6?, that are hinged on bolt 8 to the leg 7. Each end of the shaft of the upper roller 4 has loosely placed thereon an eccentric 5, having an arm 5 the two arms 5*. being connected bya tiebar or handle 5 The eccentrics 5 turn in collars or straps 6, that have at their upper portions seats or sockets 6 for the opposite ends of a bow-spring 9. The strap 6 and its seat 6 fit and move in the hollow or inner side of the end piece 7 as indicated in Fig. 4.

When the wringer is to be attached to the tub, the tie-bar or handle 5* is raised, as seen in Fig. 1, permitting a sufficient separation of the clamping-legs to allow their straddling the edge of the tub, after which the tie-bar or handle may be depressed and the tub firmly clamped between the legs, as seen in Fig. 2.

. It will be observed that when the eccentrics are turned up in this operation the collars or straps 6 and their bearings for the ends of the spring 9 are lifted against the pressure of the spring, after which the upper roller is depressed toward the lower one. When dopressed, the lower roller carries with it the legs 6, moving them toward the stationary legs 7 and pinching the tub between them. The pressure of the single spring 9 thus performs the double function of holding the rolls together and the wringer on the tub.

By turning the screw 2 the pressure on a given tub may be increased or diminished.

A handled crank 10 is shown in Fig. 3 to be secured to a prolonged shaft of the lower roller 4, by means of which the rolls are turned to wring water from laundry.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,'is-

1. In a wringer, a main frame having legs 7, a bow-spring 9 supported in said frame, upper and lower rollers, movable bearings for said rollers, seats for the ends of the bowspring in the bearings for the upper roller, eccentrics on the shaft of one of said rollers, and collars or straps on said eccentrics, and means for rocking said eccentrics, substantially as described.

- 2. In a wringer, a main frame having legs 7, a bow-spring 9 supported in said frame,

upper and lower rollers within said frame, eccentrics on the shaft of the upper roller, collars or straps on said eccentrics, and bearings for the ends of said spring on said collars, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES PHILANDER SEARLES. Witnesses:

Gno. M. FINCKEL, WILLIAM S. DRESBAOK. 

